KITTOCKS RESULTS

KITTOCKS COURSE

ST ANDREWS

Course was in great condition for December

Round 5
Winter Tour

When we arrived on Sunday the conditions were great. It was cool and there was very little wind but the forecast was for 30mph winds to hit before mid day.

So most peoples plan I think was get some points on the card before we reached the turn. By 11am the winds had picked up and by 12 it was howling. The back 9 especially the last 5/6 holes were brutal with blobs all over the place. I had 26 points walking off the 14th green and then only got 2 points in the last 4 holes. I heard rumours that some people only got 2 points over the last 7 holes !!

So this was a real test of winter golf and one man rose to the occasion .

John Byrne had a fantastic 38 points in some horrendous conditions and was 3 points ahead of Davy Graham who in turn beat defending champion Ian Fox by 1 point.

Nearest the pins were John Byrne on the 6th and on the 16th only 2 players out of 28 hit the green. By the time we all played that hole the wind was cutting straight across the hole and carving balls out in the sea.

Davie Revie was the nearnest to the pin at the 16th just beating player of the day John Byrne.

SPOON Boy was won Div Nimmo with 21 points. I actually thought it would be won with a lot less than 21 points due to the conditions as from about the 7 hole onwards it was very very tough.

I'm glad I made the decision to play off the forward tees as the whites at 6700 yards would have killed us in those winds.

Bunkers and collars around the greens were in great condition

Full Results

J Byrne                 38
D Graham            35
I Fox                    34
G Leadbitter        33
J Nugent              33
G McGill             33
S McPherson       32
S Wylie               32
S Paul                 32
B Gibson            31
B Newall            30
G Cullen             30
D Revie              30
S Jessney            29
D Stirling            29
B Murphy           29
R Chalmers         28
I Baird                 28
A Alexander        27
D Mitchell           26
A Smart              26
N Keir                26
G Dickie             25
G Sinclair           24
M McWilliams    22
J Cullen               22
D Nimmo           21

Everyone should have the Excel sheet now with all the totals. That's 5 counting rounds in for quite a few players and they can now start dumping the worst ones.

Greens were superb even with all the rain the night before.

PHOTOS OF ALL WINNERS AND LOSERS TO FOLLOW.